skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was talking about the failed negotiations in January/February 2024, you are talking about the temporary ceasefire in November 2023. So not the same deal. You can actually read about it in the BBC source I cited.

But lets talk about the 2023 temporary ceasefire. The deal never broke down, instead it expired. It was extended a couple of times, but negotiations to extend it a third time broke down. It did not end because of failure to comply. Neither Hamas nor Israel stopped releasing hostages all together until after the deal expired. I don’t know where you read that.

The week long pause freed 105 of Hamas’ captives, while Israel freed 240 Palestinians. The deal called for the release of 50 hostages by Hamas and 150 imprisoned Palestinians by Israel. The extension called for 20 of Hamas’ hostages to be released and 60 more Palestinians to be freed by Israel.

So in total Hamas promised to release 70 hostages but released 105 (35 more than promised; including 24 foreign nationals), while Israel promised to release 210 but actually released 240 (30 more then promised). Israel also promised to allow 200 trucks of aid into Gaza every day the truce stays in effect. I don’t have the number of trucks that actually entered, but I believe this was also met (though some truck drivers still complained about unnecessary and lengthy checks at the border).

Before the ceasefire came into effect, both Biden, Sunak, and Scholz had voiced their opposition to the ceasefire. Several Israeli officials had also voiced oppositions to it. Hamas had supported it. Unlike in January though, Netanyahu did not oppose it, but rather stayed silent.

During the ceasefire, Netanyahu wowed to continue the fighting and opposed any extensions to it. The USA on the other hand switch their stance and now supported extensions to it.

On December 1, the truce ended. Hamas blamed Israel for not wanting to release more Palestinians, while the USA blamed Hamas for not wanting to give them a list with names of some of the captives. We will have to wait for some documents to be released before we know what really happened in Doha day. Hamas then lunched rocket attacks onto Israel. If you wanted to blame Hamas for anything here, those rocket attacks are a better target then some fabrication about not failure to meet demands of negotiations. Israel promptly resumed their attacks the same day, with 180 Palestinians martyred that day, including in Khan Younis, who’s residents where then forced to flee to Rafah, where most still live.

On December 2, Netanyahu ordered the Israeli delegation to leave Qatar, which they did, and any prospects of further extensions were over. Since then Netanyahu has been staunchly opposed to any more ceasefire, and hostage negotiations, including the January prospects, and including the current prospects.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Israel%E2%80%93Hamas_ceas...
A problem with this is that the inference has to be 100% deterministic. For example of you change tailing order of matmul you may get slightly different results. It's easy to imagine people changing tailing in llama.cpp or other libraries. You are very unlikely to get bit exact results from different libraries.

Interestingly (though maybe not relevant here) you can also get different results from multi-user inference systems depending on what other requests are in the batch. It's possible to avoid this but I'm pretty sure most systems don't.

The "slightly different" bit of course makes it worse - it will work 99% of the time.
Kinda feels like an era is ending in aerospace as his generation passes away. We went from all sorts of grandiose ideas to building nothing but quadcopter shaped objects because you don't need to understand aerodynamics to build a quadcopter.
Formal hardware verification has been much more successful in industry. Are there fundamental differences in the types of problems that they solve? EDA companies have been able to create tools that don't require a PhD in Math to be used effectively.

I think that the explanation for such different levels of success is that economic incentives are different. The cost of a hardware bug is much much higher than the cost of the average software bug; this means that hardware companies are willing to spend a lot of money in getting designs right the first time, versus software companies that know they can always make bug fixes in new versions of their products.
Additionally, hardware companies are used to paying millions of dollars in software licenses, which is not common in the software world.
Thanks for the suggestion, and Meson keeps popping up.

I vaguely remember flattening images in some manner so imagemagick wouldn't choke. Something about setting key tones? It's been a while.
> IMO formal software verification is not really at the point where it is usable for normal programmers like us who don't have a PhD in CS / maths.

I know. Four decades ago I headed a project to build a system amazingly similar to this one, intended for real-time automobile engine control code.[1][2] This new system for Rust looks practical. It seems to be intended for people who need bug-free code. Most verification systems come from people in love with formalism. Those involve too much human labor.

Hints:

- The assertions and invariants need to be part of the language. Not something in comments, and not different syntax. They should be syntax and type checked during compiles, even if the compiler doesn't do much with them.

- It's useful to work off the compiler's intermediate representation rather than the raw source code. Then you're sure the compiler and verifier interpret the syntax the same way.

- SAT solvers aren't powerful enough to do the whole job, and systems like Coq are too manual. You need two provers. A SAT solver is enough to knock off 90% of the proofs automatically. Then, the programmer focuses the problem by adding assertions, until you get the point where you have

assert(a);
assert(b);

and just need to prove that a implies b as an abstraction mostly separate from the code.
Then you go to the more elaborate prover. We used the Boyer-Moore prover for that. After proving a implies b, that became a theorem/rule the fast prover could use when it matched. So if the same situation came up again in code, the rule would be re-used automatically.

I notice that the examples for this verified Rust system don't seem to include a termination check for loops. You prove that loops terminate by demonstrating that some nonnegative integer expression decreases on each iteration and never goes negative. If you can't prove that easily, the code has no place in mission-critical code.

Microsoft's F* is probably the biggest success in this area.[3]

[1] https://archive.org/details/manualzilla-id-5928072/page/n3/m...

[2] https://github.com/John-Nagle/pasv

[3] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/video/programming-w...
Indeed, my parents' UK 1785-ish built house is mostly stone, but it has 3 big salvaged wooden beams (salvaged from shipwrecked masts) running through the frame.
Also big on minimal wallets. I rocked a ridge wallet for a while until the metal corners rubbed holes in my pants. Now I use a trove wallet and it's been perfect
There was this: Compression Represents Intelligence Linearly, https://arxiv.org/html/2404.09937v1
Well, probably I should change my chat bookmarks to new address.
They also do it on FM in some places, I don’t think it matters a great deal what band it is in.
Ask HN: Non-obvious tip to get better answers from ChatGPT?
Mine: avoid negative prompting, such as "don't do this"
Hm, so you write the code twice :)
They never mentioned REBCO or HTS. It was obvious bullshit from the beginning. It was more likely a cover for a black project, like the SR-72.
From what i understand the amount you eat might not be all that relevant. The differnce between thin people who eat huge amounts and fat people who eat almost nothing is that the former eat lots of fat and protine in a kind of frenzy with long breaks between meals, the later eat primarly carbs and sugar very regularly.
I would focus on offering a pricing model that entices people to want to pay.

I've found that usually this involves something extremely simple and easy to understand, with clear up front numbers.
And here's the opposite - using gzip as a (merely adequate) "large" language model: https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-acl.426.pdf

By the way, if you want to see how well gzip actually models language, take any gzipped file, flip a few bits, and unzip it. If it gives you a checksum error, ignore that. You might have to unzip in a streaming way so that it can't tell the checksum is wrong until it's already printed the wrong data that you want to see.
Only accept in-bound requests. Don't provided it with any special credentials.

Someone might still be able to get an RCE on them and burn a bit of money, but they certainly wouldn't be able to move laterally.
Have you listened to AM radio recently?!

If you want to hear the most unhinged broadcasts possible, that’s where you go.
It should surprise no one to learn that, in fact, capitalism both can, and does, manufacture ion treated glassware. To this very day!

https://www.toyo.sasaki.co.jp/e/brand/fine-crystal/
This telescope and its mission to catch changes in the sky over time is going to help discover so many things.
Yes, but if you're getting the desired yield from fusion alone, you don't need to.

Remember, most of the world is focused on relatively small nuclear arms, not world ending polymegaton devices
The presence of the cat alone will deter rats from nesting nearby. The cat doesn't have to kill the rat just has to make it uncomfortable enough to leave. I work in fire protection in NYC (in the area referenced by the website and their experiment even) and see it all the time

https://pixeldrain.com/u/hocUQxjk proof :)
Yeah that would be an absurd claim.
I love these various theoretical explanations, but what would really land the plane is some suitably small unit test date doing the forward and reverse transforms.

This is the general grief with math: in enshrining the ideas in a single letter based formula, the mathematician has produced a kind of sculpture that makes sense to the initiate, but baffles the lay reader.

This is not a complaint; such sculpture filters out the riff-raff. One has to want it. And maybe filling in that unit test data is just part of the journey to understanding.
Nuh, malice.
It bears mentioning that a monopoly in and by itself is actually fine. If you provide a product or service so legitimately good that noone else can compete with you, that's fine.

What's not fine is suppressing your competitors in some form or another to achieve that monopoly, that is to say not achieving that monopoly by the sheer quality and value of your product or service.

If Apple is selling their "default search" slot to prospective buyers and Google outbids everyone else, what are you gonna do? Force Google to not bid so high? Tell Apple to not accept bids so high? That sounds worse than the supposed bad monopoly being supposedly prevented.
Because every project is different.

Because the first person to say a number in a negotiation tends to lose.

Because maybe they aren't selling five minute videos. The point is not ever to create five minutes of video. The point is to clearly explain what a product does, and that process is going to be wildly different depending on whether the product makes any fucking sense. You usually don't know if you're going to be able to work with a client until you talk to them.

If someone is sexy and charming, you'll probably go home with them for free. If someone else is neither sexy nor charming, they better be prepared to put something pretty amazing on the table or you're going to pass.
On the topic of very strong compression: http://prize.hutter1.net/
Yes! Thank you so much. I love this browser, and I'm really grateful to you for maintaining it.

I test my websites with Dillo diligently, so I have some re-testing to do now. :)
All currencies, including crypto, fiat, and chickens, have been Ponzi schemes since the beginning of time and will continue to be until the end of time. It's fundamental to their nature.
Whatever Happened to Akai?
Capitalism gets people to buy tons of unnecessary and unhealthy crap, that's for sure. (Like $150 running shoes, and sugary drinks and junk food that support the diabetes industry.)

But you're claiming something different. What's an example of a "nice thing" we'd enjoy today except for those evil capitalists blocking the path?
Outgoing U.S. Indo-Pacific commander urges countering China's military power
Perhaps an insight into vulture humour:

George the turkey vulture: It's a nice day to hang out circling.

Rambo the turkey vulture: Hey George, let's hang.

Pappias the turkey vulture: Where's the food? No food. LOL. You guys!

All: LOL (but silently).

Sydney the turkey vulture: Where's the food? No food. LOL. You guys!

All: LOL (but silently).

Violet the turkey vulture: Where's the food? No food. LOL. You guys!

All: LOL (but silently).

Sydney the turkey vulture: Where's the food? No food. LOL. You guys!

All: LOL (but silently).

Seven the turkey vulture: Where's the food? No food. LOL. You guys!

All: LOL (but silently).

Arnold the turkey vulture: Where's the food? No food. LOL. You guys!

All: LOL (but silently).

Angel the turkey vulture: Where's the food? No food. LOL. You guys!

All: LOL (but silently).

...

60 vultures later someone observes 60 vultures circling and concludes:

A. There's definitely no carcass, as that's a myth.

B. There's definitely a carcass, as there's 60 vultures.

C. I'm going to find some water to drink.
Panama is pretty stable as well and it’s next door.
They are not very useful as attack weapons because they contaminate an area and produce fallout. If you can get the explosive power of a nuke without the fallout it's much more tempting to use one.
Sometimes it's not about what it can do at first but what long term potential the creators see. Perhaps this is the MVP they could make and release but they made design choices that aren't apparent due to a vision for a future iteration that is more capable.
IIRC Raskin kept on trying to take some sort of partial credit for the Mac over the years, but the actual Mac that was made had pretty much nothing to do with his initial concept.
There are many search engines. There always have been. Google has long stopped producing the highest quality product. They are provably spending their money in a way which actively prevents competition from having a chance.

Wildly successful products can develop natural monopolies, yes, but that is not what we are seeing here.
I use LibreWolf and I can’t login to gog.com on it for some reason, but I can in FF. Still not sure why.
Gosh I'm not cut out for the academy. To me:

* Empirically, words seem to be tools which we use to make ideas appear in other people's minds.

* To know what a word means we need to understand the mental state the speaker intends to create in their audience (which I think may be different from the state the speaker had when they used the word! and involves having a model of how other people think!)

* We can convey a rich amount of meaning in as few as zero words.
You say ex AMD like that's all he's known for. Jim Keller is like some fairy who flies around companies designing sota chips.

From DEC, to AMD, to ARM and Broadcom, his own firm, hops over to Apple which then buys his old firm, heads back to ARM and then over to Tesla and finally one last stop at Intel before going into startup land again.

Worked on the K7/K8, MIPs for networking, did the A4 and A5 for Apple, on the Zen/K12, and the Tesla TPU.
Windows XP is still their best version.
Rest in Peace. Atari was the singular inspiration in my teen years, both the video games and the home computers.

Ad Astra, Mike. Thanks for all your great work.
Niche-ness isn’t a hard metric, but the argument is the same for “this is what happens when a profession hits a critical mass of people just in it for the money and not at all for the enjoyment of the profession.”
The bit about being closer to storks seems disputed, and contradicted by more recent DNA evidence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World_vulture
An MVP for this device would be an app, there’s no demonstrated capabilities the playdate has that a phone can’t do. I actually think the Humane pin “””succeeded””” in that they actually produced a device that has capabilities a 5 year old smartphone loaded with the same software doesn’t.
Bird flu in Texas: many human cases, no certainty about human to human spread?
“But Russo and many other vets have heard anecdotes about workers who have pink eye and other symptoms—including fever, cough, and lethargy—and do not want to be tested or seen by doctors. James Lowe, a researcher who specializes in pig influenza viruses, says policies for monitoring exposed people vary greatly between states. “I believe there are probably lots of human cases,” he says, noting that most likely are asymptomatic.“
2 years after UK poop-engulfed beaches became national scandals, it's even worse
They’re not my definitions, that’s straight from the source material. The idea of “surrogate activity” as I understood it was any goal "not directly satisfying your physical needs.” The aspect of it being made up is because it’s chosen by the individual and not a direct requirement of survival. To me that’s just two ways of saying the same thing.
You don't like the idea? I'm fine, long as it's not coming from slave labor or cat dung
No, before terraform, someone has to boot a machine and slap an image on it or do an OS install, Register the host in some way and have it checking for the terraform.

I use ansible for creating machine images or initial provisioning. (I don't run the ansible, someone racks the host, sets it's build state to install, and boots the host and it joins the appropriate cluster and people do container things. I don't necessarily know when my ansible runs against a host.

I also have a pretty good stack of ansible playbooks that I use manually day to day for hardware validation for new server models and one off type stuff. But again, I never really know what I'm running against or have pet servers.

A good chunk of hardware validation runs automatically if the boot target is set to hw-validate, but the whole point is that you are gonna find stuff that doesn't work with your standard process and either pass on it or adjust.

I do run tf to provision cloud infra so its transparent to the devs, and, honestly, not sure how ansible is dated and tf is not, they are pretty much the same thing in a different coat.

And honestly, generating thousands of lines of conflicting generic yaml isn't really much of an improvement over writing it once and running it automatically on 1000s of boxes.
I know they get advertised heavily but my Ridge wallet has served me well for the better part of a decade now. They also sent me a new pack of screws for free after some of the originals fell out, several years after purchase which was cool with how rare good long-term customer support is these days.
Carbon tax would solve this. No need for bans or subsidies
People get stuck into trying to apply A to B when B != A. Just because the same words are used does not mean they have the same use and meaning as applied.

Also, "space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is."
See:

https://www.folklore.org/I_Invented_Burrell.html

Though, to be fair, he did name it:

https://www.folklore.org/Bicycle.html

and for an actual answer see:

https://www.folklore.org/The_Father_of_The_Macintosh.html
Saw a tweet a few years back about how in China there was a lot of interest in cross-platform solutions. Both Alibaba and Tencent use Flutter in some capacity. It’s possible they might fork it and continue using it. Unfortunately, between that might being an internal-only project, and the seemingly siloed separation between Chinese development communities and the rest of the world, that might not help Flutter’s status, should Google end its patronage.

https://web.archive.org/web/20211218043000/https://twitter.c...
Sure, nico@gpudeploy.com
Yup https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_IT
I've done judo for years, but I don't think knowing how to fall helps much when you get hit by a car.
> "Using them today for profane reasons would be the same as going into a church and having a party – it's not appropriate," Paterson says.

What is with the moralism? I used to go to some brilliant parties (raves) at a church in San Francisco. Sometimes I really miss those mid/late 90's...
That clarifies some hints I’ve seen. Wow.
I mean, sure this is compression in the sense that I can send you a tiny "compressed text" and all you need is this multi-terabyte model to decompress it!
The fact that it's a "shut up and take my money" is a meme says enough as well. Probably reach more younger people that don't read and only speak in images /s
It was certainly important for us to make sure developers were happy with the result. That's why our rollout included stuff like a phase where developers continued writing Skew but their changes automatically checked-in generated TS. This way, devs could see what it would look like in PR review and report issues. As for performance and runtime correctness, you're right that there are some gotchas with TS. We caught issues like the array destructuring one with instrumentation and strict monitoring.

I was definitely sad to see some features of Skew go. For example, operator overloading and integer types. But the move was ultimately a decision the whole team made, and I agree with them that it was the right one.
It's really hard to put a dollar value on what the value of having something like SpaceX Starship available is, and it's hard to evaluate what the Starship project would look like if we hadn't put the money into the Apollo/ISS/STS/SLS before.

With the current state of things, I would bet that with a fully reusable orbiter like Starship, space-based solar with microwave transmitters will probably be a cheaper option than fusion. But we should work on both because we can't predict it until both are tried. It's easy to say no to a project when we don't know what the outcome will be, but we need to take on a lot of big risky projects to see which ones give outsized returns.
Indeed the technology itself is, but the spectrum is not, it’s allocated by FCC auction and effectively controlled by the cellar companies.

This is what I think may be the source of confusion, since you can’t say, build your own cellar device and tap into Verizon’s network without their authorization, like you can with AM or FM radio waves
Why focus on AM when we already have a federally run national emergency broadcast service — the NOAA Weather Radio. Go peruse around 162Mhz. You may find you're within 2-3 different transmitters right now.

Bonus: Zero political anything to worry about. The weather radio is a completely boring readout of the weather and alerts. It’s simple. It’s beautiful.

It would be trivial to support with most existing FM antennas anyways, it already supports national emergency announcements in addition to weather alerts. It even broadcasts a signal telling you where a given alert is targeting. A vehicle could use and correlate its GPS location to notify occupants.

AM would require manually switching the radio mode, tuning to find an appropriate channel, and there’s so much crap to dig around.

Plus, say a nuclear weapon went off anyways and all the FM transmitters died. Is anyone seriously thinking a lone AM transmitter 2000 miles away is going to help? We had all the communication in the world during COVID and that did nothing to stop people from acting foolish.